This one may be way out there, but I'm asking anyhow. In the story I'm writing, I have a manuscript written in Gaelic sometime before 1870 when the story is set. The manuscript gets burned, leaving only one page with a strange inscription in Gaelic. However, the main character is unfamiliar with all the words. He translates it as "Written for my [obscure word] son," where [obscure word] is the word he doesn't know.

Now ... The word needs to be an adjective a father would use to show pride in his son. The son in question being a grown man at this point and the father dead. But it also needs to be rather obscure where the main character doesn't know it.

If all of that sets you to thinking and you know of something, please post. Thanks!

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Suzanne D. Williams is a native Floridian, wife, and mother with a penchant for spelling things and an Irishman somewhere way back in her background.

Perhaps Laomdha, which meant brilliant. I don't think it's used today or for a long time.

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The dialect I use is Cork Irish.
Ar sgáth a chéile a mhairid na daoine, lag agus láidir, uasal is íseal

Thanks. That will work, although if anyone else has a suggestion, I'm all ears.

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Suzanne D. Williams is a native Floridian, wife, and mother with a penchant for spelling things and an Irishman somewhere way back in her background.